Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alaska Railroad's general manager reported that its best-kept stretch of track was maintained by a section gang composed of eight Indian women...
...important with old-fashioned propeller planes. There was plenty of space for a seated pilot behind a reciprocating engine. But jet engines are slimmer and designers have learned to fold tanks and guns into nose and wings. To take full advantage of lower frontal areas, pilots may have to stretch out in the direction of the airstream...
...Harry Bartlett Stewart Jr., 44, had spent half his life shipping coal. But Bart Stewart thought there was a better way to do it than by train. Last week, he formed a company to build the longest conveyor belt in the world to haul coal and ore. It would stretch from Lorain on Lake Erie for 103 miles south to East Liverpool on the Ohio, with branch belts to Cleveland and Youngstown...
Tobogganing or sledding is fine if you yearn for childhood days, and can find a clean stretch of hill unpolluted by skiers...
Gehrmann did. Entering the 34-yd. stretch, he went up on his toes like a sprinter, passed Slykhuis with 5 yards to go, broke the tape a foot in front. Time: 4:09.5. Said Gehrmann after he had caught his breath: "I'm sorry my time wasn't better. My pacing was a little off tonight...